The President's News Conference
02/19/1952
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We venerate these documents not because they are old, not because they are valuable historical relics, but because they ...
I am glad that the Bill of Rights is at last to be exhibited side by side with the Constitution.
My decision should not be interpreted as establishing any new pattern or policy.
It would have involved us in all-out war in the Far East, and we have been strenuously trying to avoid that all the time...